The National Trust has loaned eight of its valuable Pompeo Batoni paintings to the exhibition at the National Gallery.
To celebrate, we are offering all National Trust members and visitors half price entry tickets. Simply quote 'National Trust Offer' at the ticket desk of the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing. The exhibition runs until 18 May 2008.
The paintings by Pompeo Batoni in the exhibition at the National Gallery are:
  
Saint Paul, Saint Peter, Saint Philip (The Iliffe Collection, Basildon Park)
  
Purity of Heart (The Fetherstonhaugh Collection, Uppark)
God the Father (The Iliffe Collection, Basildon Park)
Meekness (The Fetherstonhaugh Collection, Uppark)
Not shown above:
Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, as a Hunter (The Fetherstonhaugh Collection, Uppark)
Sarah, Lady Fetherstonhaugh, as Diana (The Fetherstonhaugh Collection, Uppark)
In his day (1708 - 1787), Pompeo Batoni was the most celebrated painter in Rome. The exhibition, which marks the centenary of the painter's birth, is the first comprehensive presentation of Batoni's paintings in forty years and has the finest examples available in the private and public collections of Europe and America.
Twenty other paintings can be found at Castle Ward, Charlecote, Coughton Court, Ickworth, Kingston Lacy, Powis Castle, Springhill and Stourhead, as well as Uppark and Basildon.
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